Tag: open-source

GraphQL with Micronaut

Reading Time: 6 minutes GraphQL is an open-source query language that is getting a lot of popularity in the last years and brings some new ways to access information. Because of that, GraphQL is gaining traction among developers due to its flexibility to query and retrieve data. Together with the Micronaut Framework, Software Engineers can deliver value fast and …

Implementing Kafka topic consumption in Micronaut

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Reading Time: 6 minutes Apache Kafka is one of the most used open-source distributed event streaming platforms when we talk about event-driven microservices architecture. This system brings great features, such as scalability handling, data transformation, and fault-tolerance, among others, that make Apache Kafka so popular for infrastructure, architecture, and developer teams. Micronaut is a modern Java framework, with a …

Introduction to Kubernetes Custom Resources

Reading Time: 7 minutes Kubernetes is one of the most impactful open-source software in the last 10 years. Among others, it brings the myth(?) dreamed of auto-scalability. Apart from that, a Kubernetes environment is capable to take care of the applications we deploy within it, ensuring the desired state, and trying to keep the zero-downtime status. What about the …

GraalVM and Micronaut – Hello World

Reading Time: 6 minutes The GraalVM is one of those technologies that are getting interest in the Cloud Native world during the last couple of years. It comes to solve some key challenges when we have to develop services into the Cloud. Moreover, and keeping the context about fast and cloud-oriented software development, we have the modern Java framework …

Review Course Containers Fundamentals (LFS253)

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’ve recently started with the training platform from The Linux Foundation, and my first course has been “Containers Fundamentals (LFS253)“. This is the first out of an unknown number of reviews dedicated to the courses I take from The Linux Foundation. On all these articles, I’ll write a small review with the highlights I consider …

How to create a Cloud Native Community Group

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Cloud Native Computing Foundation supports the worldwide community of the Cloud Native Community Groups (CNCG) and currently, they are working on expanding the Cloud Native community around the globe, and they are happy to accept the new local communities to join their network. In this short article, I will describe the few steps and …

New Kids On The Block

Reading Time: 2 minutes Opening new frontiers. That’s the feeling that I had when the CNCF promoted the opportunity to create new Community Groups across the world. I saw it on Twitter, and I thought, “what if.. ?”. Yes, there it is again, the feeling that comes together with that sentence. After that, I thought, “but it would be …

Training Day

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pull Requests are WELCOME! This is probably the most common sentence in the open-source world. Attending to meetups, conferences, summits, and when somebody writes any comments in Github, usually asking how to do this or that, and make feature requests, that sentence comes back to you as an implacable boomerang. Most of the time, there …